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Brick House is a 16-foot (4.9 m) tall bronze bust of a black woman by Simone Leigh, ... Leigh selected Stratton Studio in Philadelphia as the fabrication site, ...
Letitia Street House is a modest eighteenth-century house in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. It was built along the Delaware riverfront about 1713, and relocated to its current site in 1883. The house was once celebrated as the city residence of Pennsylvania's founder, William Penn (1644–1718); however, later historical research determined ...
The Philadelphia settlers soon began constructing buildings with wood and brick with the first brick house being built in 1684. By 1690 four brickmakers and ten bricklayers were working in the city. In 1698 construction of the Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church, the oldest surviving building in Philadelphia, began. Construction of the church was ...
Claimed to be the nation's oldest residential street; two rows of Federal and Georgian brick houses built between 1720 and 1830, with a total of 32 extant houses [8] Wyck House: Philadelphia, Germantown: c. 1700–20, later additions House Stenton: Philadelphia, Germantown: 1723 House Home of James Logan, secretary of William Penn: Old Chester ...
The Thomas Sully House is located in Center City, Philadelphia, on the south side of Spruce Street roughly midway between 5th and 6th Streets. One of several brick rowhouses on the block, it is 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 stories in height, with a gabled roof pierced by a single gabled dormer. The facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the rightmost bay.
Davis served as Assistant Warden of the organization from 1767 to 1770 and was a major contributor towards the construction of Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia. Davis had acquired the lot on which the Davis-Lenox house stands in 1758 for 5 pounds yearly ground rent and completed construction of a two-story brick house and kitchen in 1759. [1]
The Henry O. Tanner House is located on Philadelphia's north side, on the south side of West Diamond Street between 29th and 30th Streets. It is a three-story brick rowhouse, set between a similar-height rowhouse and the modern Mount Lebanon Church. It has a three-part picture window with flanking sashes on the ground floor, with the entrance ...
The Slate Roof House was a mansion that stood on 2nd Street north of Walnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from about 1687 until its demolition in 1867. Built for Barbadian Quaker merchant Samuel Carpenter , the house occupied a small hill overlooking the Delaware River .